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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo` GEORGE LEDER, OF DEMOPOLIS, ALABAMA, AND .VALTER T. FORBES, OF

l' ATLANTA, GEORGIA. I

BALE-TIE BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,421, dated November 1, 1887.

. Application filed August 25, 1887. Serial No. 247,828. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE LEDER, of

A Demopolis, in the county of Marengo and St'ate of Alabama, and WALTER T. FORBES, of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Tie Buckles; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear," and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to makeand use the same.

Our invention relates to an improvement in the buckles for bale-ties;

The object of our invention is to provide a buckle that will contain a means of locking the coiled end of the tie-band after the baud is tightened upon the bale to prevent any possibility'of the coiled lock becoming released by rough handling or other causes.

With this object in view our invention consists in certain features of construction of the buckle and its combination with the coiled and looped ends of the tie-band, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out i-n the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a buckle having our improved lock made integral with it. Fig. 2 is a view of a bale-tie locked, the locking-tang of the buckle being in contact with the coiled band to secure it from uncoiling. Fig. 3 is a View of the coiling-tool.

We employ as a bale-lie a band, A., having one end, a, looped to connect it to one bar, a. of the buckle B, by hooking this looped end over the bar a', the looped end a being located between the surface of the bale and the tieband, which latter is passed around the bale and has its free end d inserted into the eye in the buckle-frame B, to be adjacent to the opposite edge ofthis buckle-frame when the band is tightened. r

The buckle-frame B has its bar b, which is parallel to the engaged bar c', formed with an integral locking-tang, c, which is preferably given a saw-tooth form. The sharp point of the inwardly-projecting tang c is intended 'to bear uponthe opposed surface of the tie-band A when the band is tied or secured to the buckle by both ends, to hold 'a compressed bale tightly bound.

In fastening the tieband upon a compressed bale, the band having `first been made to encircle the bale with one end looped to the buckle-frame, as has been explained, the free end d is introduced into the eye of the buckle B and gripped by a proper tool (see Fig. 3) having a slotted end, into which the band at its end is inserted edgewise. The rotation of the tool will roll the portion d of the tie-band A into a close coil, e, which will bear upon the outer surface of the buckle-frame B. This means of locking is made doubly secure by the tang c, which 'is caused to engage the side of the tie-band below the coil e, and effectually prevent itslipping or releasingfrom anycause. The tang c may be caused to penetrate or completely embed its point in thetie-band A after the coil is formed `upon its end, as previously described, by striking the outer edge of the buckle frame or bar of this frame, upon which the tang c is formed. A blow of a hammerpole upon the bar of the buckle-frame, opposite to the tang c, will obviously force the point of this tang into the band, and so prevent the slacking of the coil which effects the tying of the band upon a compressed bale.

We are aware that a coiled baletie has been patented in which the coil is wound between the band and the bale. This tie is inconvenient to affix and cannot be readily or quickly applied, and does not lock to prevent releas- -ing of the'coiled end of the band.

We do notin this application claim, broadly, the use oi a bale-tie having its band hooked to one bar of a buckle and the other end of the band coiled on the outside of the buckle, as such is shown in application No. 245,714, filed July 30, 1887'.v

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bale-tie buckle having a tang or sawtooth projection formed upon one of its bars to project into the eye-hole of the buckle, subi specification in the presence of two subscribing stantielly as set forth. witnesses.

2. The combination, with the frame of a bale-tie buckle provided withatooth that pro- 5 jects into its eye-hole, of a bale-tie hooked by one folded end to a ber ofthe buckle and the other end inserted in the buckle-eye and coiled rpon the outside of the buckle, the tie-band GEORGE LEDER. VALTER T. FORBES.

Vitnesses to signature of George Leder:

A. Y. SHARPE, G. G. SHARPE.

low the eoil having an embedded look with Witnesses as to signature of falter T. Io e tang or tooth of the buckle frame, sub- Forbes:

.intiztlly as set forth. J. VVOODSON,

In testimony whereof We have signed this E. J. DOBBS. 

